Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal: Thali
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this very special LIVE episode, recorded at The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival on May 31, 2025, host Rachel Belle sits down with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, who represents Washington’s 7th District. She’s also the first elected official to be a guest on Your Last Meal!
Congresswoman Jayapal is an activist and fierce advocate of immigrant rights, but she was thrilled to (mostly) take a break from talking politics to chat about one of her favorite topics: food!
She talks about what it was like immigrating to the United States on her own at 16, what she thought of American food when she arrived and what American snack has been her favorite since she was a child living in India. She recalls the time President Joe Biden personally called her to invite her to the White House for breakfast, and a tells a charming story about why her daughter became such an avid cook at such a young age.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.6 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Rachel Bell and this this is your Last Meal. |
| 0:23.4 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, |
| 0:26.5 | and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:32.2 | Today we have a very special episode of your last meal. |
| 0:36.0 | You get to hear the live podcast taping I did at Cascade PBS Ideas Festival earlier this summer. |
| 0:42.2 | In just a few seconds, I will give her a full and proper introduction, |
| 0:45.7 | but I was lucky enough to be joined on stage with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. |
| 1:00.1 | Thank you. at Giacall. Hi, everybody. |
| 1:01.2 | Can you hear me? |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome to Ideas Fest. |
| 1:03.1 | First one of the day. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm Rachel Bell. |
| 1:06.4 | I host The Nosh on Cascade PBS. |
| 1:08.6 | I have a cookbook called Open Sesame, 40% off on Amazon right now. |
| 1:12.2 | ABP, always be plugging. |
| 1:14.2 | And you are here today for your last meal with, of course, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. |
| 1:19.1 | Give a big round of applause. |
| 1:21.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:24.5 | This is the ninth year in August that I've made this show, and I've had many actors, musicians, |
| 1:31.1 | filmmakers, cooks, the woman who invented prancer size has been on the show. But this is the first |
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